Sidney Bechet Rhythm Kings Full Set Jazz Nocturne 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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Extremely Rare Full Set of 12 Volumes from Fat Cat's Jazz series. 

Sidney Bechet And His New Orleans Rhythm Kings – Oh, Didn't They Ramble - Jazz Nocturne Volume 1
Label: Fat Cat's Jazz – FCJ 001 Series: Jazz Nocturne (Fat Cat's Jazz) – Volume 1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 1982 Genre: Jazz Style: A1 Interview of Bunk Johnson About New Band In Boston A2 Savoy Cafe A3 Wmex A4 Intro Sobbin'Blues A5 Confessin' A6 Careless Love A7 Summertime Intro A8 I Know That You Know A9 Sweet Georgia Brown A10 Sleepytime Down SOuth B1 Sobbin'Blues B2 Pistol Packin' Mama B3 Dear Old Southland B4 Boogie Woogie B5 Muskrat Ramble B6 Interview Of Bunk Johnson B7 Broadcast Intro And Didn't He Ramble Bass [String] – Pops Foster Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone – Sidney Bechet Drums – George Thompson (7) Piano – Ray Parker (5) Trumpet – Bunk Johnson Broadcasts of performances and interviews, along with off-the-air recordings, made at Boston and New York radio stations, March 1945; some selections incomplete.
Sidney Bechet And His New Orleans Rhythm Kings – A Team Of Genius - Jazz Nocturne Volume 2
Label: Fat Cat's Jazz – FCJ 002 Series: Jazz Nocturne (Fat Cat's Jazz) – Volume 2 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 1982 Genre: Jazz Style: A1 Theme In & Clarinet Marmalade W/intro A2 4 Or 5 Times A3 Indiana A4 I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues A5 Old Man River A6 Alice Blue Gown A7 I Got Rhythm A8 Struttin' With Some Barbecue & Theme A9 Bechet Talks About Clarence Williams And Thomas Morris With Wynne Paris A10 Bechet Talks About One Man Band, Sheik Of Araby With Wynne Paris A11 Bechet Talks About Johnny Dodds With Wynne Paris B1 Theme In B2 Muskrat Ramble B3 My Idea/Confessin' B4 Marie B5 Dear Old Southland B6 Sunny Side Of The Street B7 My Blue Heaven B8 Chinatown And Theme Out Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Fat Cats Jazz Records Inc Copyright © – Fat Cats Jazz Records Inc Bass [String] – Pops Foster Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone – Sidney Bechet Cornet – Johnny WIndhurst Drums – George Thompson (7) Interviewer – Wynne Paris (2) Liner Notes – Johnson McRee, Jr. Piano – Ray Parker (5) Broadcasts recorded off the air, radio station WCOP, Boston, Mass, June 5-7, 1945
Sidney Bechet And His New Orleans Rhythm Kings – The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise - Jazz Nocturne Volume 3
Label: Fat Cat's Jazz – FCJ 003 Series: Jazz Nocturne (Fat Cat's Jazz) – Volume 3 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 1982 Genre: Jazz, Blues Style: Memphis Blues, Ragtime A1 Intro 3:06 A2 Interview 1 6:03 A3 Interview 2 5:59 A4 Theme In 4:51 A5 I Found A New Baby 4:09 B1 Twelfth Street Rag 3:50 B2 Embraceable You 2:56 B3 The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise 4:20 B4 Memphis Blues 3:07 B5 I Ain't Got Nobody & Theme Out 3:01 B6 Intro And Sleepy Time Down South 3:16 B7 I Know That You Know 2:20 Broadcasts recorded Apr. 3-5th, 1945 on WCOP and WBZ, Boston.
Sidney Bechet And His New Orleans Rhythm Kings – Yellow Dog Blues - Jazz Nocturne Volume 4 Label: Fat Cat's Jazz – FCJ 004 Series: Jazz Nocturne (Fat Cat's Jazz) – Volume 4 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 1982 Genre: Jazz, Blues Style: Memphis Blues, Ragtime A1 Theme In / Three Little Words A2 I'm Sorry I Made You Cry A3 Blues Jerome Kern Medley A4.1 Can't Help Lovin 'that Man A4.2 Why Do I Love You A4.3 Make Believe A5 Muskrat Ramble A6 Indiana A7 Blue Lou / Theme Out B1 Trouble In Mind /Theme In B2 Blue Skies B3 Jelly Roll B4 That's A Plenty B5 Squeeze Me B6 High Society B7 Blues B8 I Found A New Baby / Theme Out Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Fat Cats Jazz Records Inc Copyright © – Fat Cats Jazz Records Inc Bass [String] – Pops Foster Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone – Sidney Bechet Cornet – Johnny WIndhurst Drums – George Thompson (7) Piano – Ray Parker (5)
Sidney Bechet And His New Orleans Rhythm Kings – Sidney And Johnny's Blues - Jazz Nocturne Volume 5 Fat Cat's Jazz – FCJ 005 Series: Jazz Nocturne (Fat Cat's Jazz) – Volume 5 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 1982 Genre: Jazz, Blues Style: Memphis Blues, Ragtime A1 Theme In A2 Jazz Me Blues Medley A3.1 My Ideal A3.2 Confessing A4 I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me A5 Sweet Lorraine A6 Ugly Child Irving Berlin Medley A7.1 Always A7.2 All Alone A7.3 Stumblin' B1 China Boy B2 Baby, Won't You Please Come Home B3 I Never Knew B4 Sidney And Johnny's Blues B5 Clarinet Marmalade B6 I'm Coming Virginia B7 Mandy, Make Up Your Mind B8 Limehouse Blues Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Fat Cats Jazz Records Inc Copyright © – Fat Cats Jazz Records Inc Bass [String] – Pops Foster Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone – Sidney Bechet Cornet – Johnny WIndhurst Drums – George Thompson (7) Piano – Ray Parker (5) Vocals [Announcer] – Bob Brenner (3) Broadcasts recorded Apr. 19 and 24, 1945 from the Savoy Cafe, Boston
Sidney Bechet And His New Orleans Rhythm Kings – My Blue Heaven - Jazz Nocturne Volume 6
Label: Fat Cat's Jazz – FCJ 006 Series: Jazz Nocturne (Fat Cat's Jazz) – Volume 6 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 1983 Genre: Jazz Style: A1 Theme In And Alexander's Ragtime Band A2 My Blue Heaven A3 Basin St.Blues A4 Indian Love Call/Song Of The Islands A5 Dear Old Southland A6 Sunday A7 China Boy And Theme In B1 Interview Of Johnny Windhurst B2 Theme In And St.Louis Blues B3 It's Only A Paper Moon B4 Twelft Street Rag B5 Jazz Me Blues B6 There'll Be Some Changes Made B7 Sister Kate (I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My) B8 Bugie Call Rag & Old Miss And Theme Out Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Fat Cats Jazz Records Inc Copyright © – Fat Cats Jazz Records Inc Bass [String] – Pops Foster Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone – Sidney Bechet Cornet – Johnny WIndhurst Drums – George Thompson (7) Piano – Ray Parker (5)
Sidney Bechet And His New Orleans Rhythm Kings – Easy Rider - Jazz Nocturne Volume 7
Label: Fat Cat's Jazz – FCJ 007 Series: Jazz Nocturne (Fat Cat's Jazz) – Volume 7 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 1982 Genre: Jazz, Blues Style: Memphis Blues, Ragtime A1 Theme In & Exactly Like You 5:44 A2 Tea For Two 4:06 A3 Sobbin' Blues 4:21 A4 Panama 3:38 A5 Sweet Lorraine 5:26 A6 Boogie Woogie 2:29 A7 Sweet Georgia Brown (Including Part Of Theme Out) 1:56 B1 Theme In & Caravan 5:43 B2 Easy Rider 4:50 B3 After You're Gone 3:39 B4 Don't Fence Me In 3:16 B5 Lady Be Good 2:57 B6 You'll Never Know 3:25 B7 Some Of These Days & Theme Out 4:28 Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Fat Cats Jazz Records Inc Copyright © – Fat Cats Jazz Records Inc Bass [String] – Pops Foster Drums – George Thompson (7) Piano – Ray Parker (5) Soprano Saxophone – Sidney Bechet Trumpet – Pete Bocage
Sidney Bechet And His New Orleans Rhythm Kings – Never No Lament - Jazz Nocturne Volume 8 Fat Cat's Jazz – FCJ 008 Series: Jazz Nocturne (Fat Cat's Jazz) – Volume 8 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 1982 Genre: Jazz, Blues Style: Memphis Blues, Ragtime A1 The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise A2 I Ain't Got Nobody A3 Blue Skies A4 Never No Lament A5 Together A6 Blues A7 Avalon A8 Perdido Street Stomp B1 Loveless Love B2 Ain't Misbehavin' B3 That's A Plenty B4 Wang Wang Blues B5 Chinatown B6 Changes Made B7 Panama Rag Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Fat Cats Jazz Records Inc Copyright © – Fat Cats Jazz Records Inc Bass [String] – Pops Foster Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone – Sidney Bechet Drums – George Thompson (7) Piano – Ray Parker (5) Trumpet – Pete Bocage Side A - May 8, 1945 broadcast, WCOP, Boston Side B - May 10, 1945 broadcast, WCOP, Boston
Sidney Bechet And His New Orleans Rhythm Kings – High Society - Jazz Nocturne Volume 9 Label: Fat Cat's Jazz – FCJ 009 Series: Jazz Nocturne (Fat Cat's Jazz) – Volume 9 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 1982 Genre: Jazz, Blues Style: Memphis Blues, Ragtime A1 St. Louis Blues A2 Marie A3 Sunny Side Of The Street A4 I'm Coming Virginia A5 High Society A6 Someday Sweetheart A7 I Got Rhythm B1 At Sundown B2 Sheik Of Araby Memphis Blues B3.1 Always B3.2 All Alone B3.3 Stumbling B4 Dear Old Southland B5 Ugly Child B6 After You've Gone B7 Sister Kate Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Fat Cats Jazz Records Inc Copyright © – Fat Cats Jazz Records Inc Bass [String] – Pops Foster Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone – Sidney Bechet Drums – George Thompson (7) Piano – Ray Parker (5) Trumpet – Pete Bocage Valve Trombone – Brad Gowans Side A - May 15, 1945 broadcast, WCOP, Boston Side B - May 17, 1945 broadcast, WCOP, Boston
Sidney Bechet And His New Orleans Rhythm Kings – Royal Garden Blues - Jazz Nocturne Volume 10 Label: Fat Cat's Jazz – FCJ 010 Series: Jazz Nocturne (Fat Cat's Jazz) – Volume 10 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 1982 Genre: Jazz, Blues Style: Memphis Blues, Ragtime A1 Theme In A2 I Never Knew A3 Lazy River A4 Sweet Sue A5 I Can't Get Started A6 Struttin' With Some Barbeque A7 Blues In The Air A8 Sheik Of Araby A9 Sweet Georgia Brown A10 Theme Out B1 Alexander's Ragtime Band With Intro B2 Black & Blue B3 Royal Garden Blues B4 Indian Love Call ; Song Of The Islands B5 Mandy B6 Darktown Strutters Ball B7 Baby Won't You Please Come Home B8 Theme Out Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Fat Cats Jazz Records Inc Copyright © – Fat Cats Jazz Records Inc Bass [String] – Pops Foster Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone – Sidney Bechet Cornet – Johnny WIndhurst Drums – George Thompson  Piano – Ray Parker  From two radio broadcasts in 1945 of radio station WCOP, Boston, Mass

Sidney Bechet And His New Orleans Rhythm Kings – Struttin' With Some Barbecue - Jazz Nocturne Volume 11 Label: Fat Cat's Jazz – FCJ 011 Series: Jazz Nocturne (Fat Cat's Jazz) – Volume 11 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1982 Genre: Jazz, Blues Style: Memphis Blues, Ragtime A1 Theme In & Clarinet Marmalade w/Intro 3:18 A2 4 or 5 Times 3:29 A3 Indiana 3:14 A4 I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues 3:19 A5 Old Man River 3:06 A6 Alice Blue Gown 2:46 A7 I Got Rhythm 2:35 A8 Struttin' With Some Barbecue & Theme 3:15 A9 Bechet Talks About Clarence Williams And Thomas Morris With Wynne Paris 3:30 B1 Bechet Talks About One Man Band Sheik Of Araby With Wynne Paris 1:39 B2 Bechet Talks About Johnny Dodds With Wynne Paris 1:14 B3 Theme In 1:27 B4 Muskrat Ramble 2:44 B5 My Ideal / Confessin' 3:57 B6 Marie 3:31 B7 Dear Old Southland 2:29 B8 Sunny Side Of The Street 3:57 B9 My Blue Heaven 3:58 B10 Chinatown And Theme Out 4:09 Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Fat Cats Jazz Records Inc Copyright © – Fat Cats Jazz Records Inc


Sidney Bechet And His New Orleans Rhythm Kings – Blues In The Air - Jazz Nocturne Volume 12 Label: Fat Cat's Jazz – FCJ 012 Series: Jazz Nocturne (Fat Cat's Jazz) – Volume 12 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 1982 Genre: Jazz Style: A1 Theme In A2 Some Of These Days A3 I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me A4 Basin St. Blues A5 Begin The Beguine A6 Dinah A7 Paper Moon A8 That's A Plenty A9 Theme Out A10 Interview Of Pops Foster By Wynne Paris B1 Theme In B2 Old Fashioned Love B3 Blues In The Air B4 Nobody's Sweetheart Now/Summertime B5 Struttin' With Some Barbecue B6 I Can't Get Started B7 Tiger Rag B8 Farewell By Bechet Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Fat Cats Jazz Records Inc Copyright © – Fat Cats Jazz Records Inc Bass [String] – Pops Foster Cornet – Johnny WIndhurst Drums – George Thompson (7) Interviewer – Wynne Paris (2) Piano – Ray Parker (5) Soprano Saxophone – Sidney Bechet Broadcasts recorded off the air, radio station WCOP, Boston, Mass., June 12-14, 1945.
Sidney Joseph Bechet (/bɛˈʃeɪ/ beh-SHAY; May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He was one of the first important soloists in jazz, and first recorded several months before trumpeter Louis Armstrong.[1] His erratic temperament hampered his career, and not until the late 1940s did he earn wide acclaim. Bechet spent much of his later life in France.[2]
Biography
Bechet's childhood home in the 7th Ward of New Orleans Early life Bechet was born in New Orleans in 1897 to a middle-class Creole of color family. Bechet's father Omar was both a shoemaker and a flute player, and all four of his brothers were musicians as well.[3]
His older brother, Leonard Victor Bechet, was a full-time dentist and a part-time trombonist and bandleader. Bechet learned and mastered several musical instruments that were kept around the house (he began on the cornet), mostly by teaching himself; he decided to specialize in the clarinet (which he played almost exclusively until about 1919).[3]
At the age of six, he started performing with his brother's band at a family birthday party, debuting his talents to acclaim. Later in his youth, Bechet studied with Joseph "King" Oliver, Bunk Johnson, Freddie Keppard,[2] Lorenzo Tio, "Big Eye" Louis Nelson Delisle, and George Baquet.[4]
Musical development Bechet played in many New Orleans ensembles using the improvisational techniques of the time (obbligatos with scales and arpeggios and varying the melody). While working with Louis Armstrong, Bechet was one of the first musicians to develop the Swing style of jazz; he influenced the widening difference between jazz and ragtime.[2] Bechet liked to have his sound dominate in a performance, and trumpeters reportedly found it difficult to play alongside him.[5]
He performed in parades with Freddie Keppard's brass band, the Olympia Orchestra, and in John Robichaux's dance orchestra. From 1911 to 1912, he performed with Bunk Johnson in the Eagle Band of New Orleans and in 1913–14 with King Oliver in the Olympia Band. From 1914 to 1917, he was touring and traveling, going as far north as Chicago and frequently performing with Freddie Keppard.[citation needed]
In the spring of 1919, he traveled to New York City and joined Will Marion Cook's Syncopated Orchestra. Soon after, the orchestra traveled to Europe, where they performed at the Royal Philharmonic Hall in London. The group was warmly received, and Bechet was especially popular.[4]
While in London, he discovered the straight soprano saxophone and developed a style unlike his clarinet tone. Bechet was the first influential soprano saxophonist, leading to its rising popularity as a jazz instrument.[3]
His saxophone sound could be described as emotional, reckless, and all-encompassing. He often used a broad vibrato, similar to some New Orleans clarinetists at the time. In 1919, a Swiss classical music conductor, Ernest Ansermet, wrote a tribute to Bechet. It was one of the earliest (if not the first) articles about a jazz musician written by an expert in the field of classical music, linking Bechet's music with that of Bach.[4]
Bechet's first recordings were made in 1923 and 1924.[2] The session was led by Clarence Williams, a pianist and songwriter, better known at that time for his music publishing and record producing, and his "Blue Five" (which included Louis Armstrong).[2] Bechet recorded "Wild Cat Blues" and "Kansas City Man Blues." The former is in a ragtime style with four 16-bar themes, and the latter is a 12-bar blues.[3] In 1924, Bechet worked with Duke Ellington for three months and made a significant impact on Ellington's early jazz style.[2] Duke Ellington called him "the epitome of jazz."[6] However, he never learned how to read music in his lifetime of being a musician.[7]

Soprano saxophone Bechet in France
Bechet in 1922 On September 15, 1925, Bechet and other members of the Revue Nègre, including Josephine Baker, sailed to Europe, arriving at Cherbourg, France, on September 22. The revue opened at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées[8] in Paris on October 2. The show was an example of negrophilia in France at the time.[9] He toured Europe with multiple bands, reaching as far as Russia in mid-1926. In 1928, he led his small band at Chez Bricktop (run by the popular Ada "Bricktop" Smith) in Montmartre, Paris.
In France, Bechet found that he was appreciated by a wider audience and had more general freedom than he did in the United States.[7]
He was imprisoned in Paris for eleven months.[10][11] In his autobiography, he wrote that he accidentally shot a woman when he was trying to shoot a musician who had insulted him. He had challenged the man to duel and said, "Sidney Bechet never plays the wrong chord."[12] After his release, he was deported to New York, arriving soon after the stock market crash of 1929. He joined with Lorenzo Tio and also came to know trumpeter Roy Eldridge.[5]
In 1932, Bechet returned to New York City to lead a band with Tommy Ladnier. The band, comprising six members, performed at the Savoy Ballroom. He played in Noble Sissle's orchestra, which toured in Germany and Russia.
Later life In 1938, "Hold Tight, Hold Tight (Want Some Seafood Mama)," commonly known as "Hold Tight," was composed by Bechet's guitarist Leonard Ware and two session singers with claimed contributions from Bechet himself. The song became known for its suggestive lyrics and then for a series of lawsuits over songwriter royalties.
In 1939, Bechet and the pianist Willie "The Lion" Smith led a group that recorded several early versions of what was later called Latin jazz, adapting traditional méringue, rhumba and Haitian songs to the jazz idiom. On July 28, 1940, Bechet made a guest appearance on the NBC Radio show The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street, playing two of his showpieces ("Shake It and Break It" and "St. Louis Blues") with Henry Levine's Dixieland band. Levine invited Bechet into the RCA Victor recording studio (on 24th Street in New York City), where Bechet lent his soprano sax to Levine's traditional arrangement of "Muskrat Ramble." On April 18, 1941, as an early experiment in overdubbing at Victor, Bechet recorded a version of the pop song "The Sheik of Araby," playing six different instruments: clarinet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, piano, bass, and drums. A hitherto unissued master of this recording was included in the 1965 LP Bechet of New Orleans, issued by RCA Victor as LPV-510. In the liner notes, George Hoeffer quoted Bechet:

November, 1947--Bill Reinhardt (clarinet), Danny Alvin (drums), Bechet (soprano sax), Mel Grant (piano), and Munn Ware (trombone). "I started by playing The Sheik on piano and played the drums while listening to the piano. I meant to play all the rhythm instruments but got all mixed up and grabbed my soprano, then the bass, then the tenor saxophone, and finally finished up with the clarinet."
In 1944, 1946, and 1953, he recorded and performed in concert with the Chicago jazz pianist and vibraphonist Max Miller; private recordings from Miller's archive have never been released. These concerts and recordings are described in John Chilton's biography Sidney Bechet: The Wizard of Jazz.[13]
With jobs in music difficult to find, he opened a tailor shop with Ladnier. They were visited by musicians and played in the back of the shop. In the 1940s, Bechet played in several bands, but his financial situation did not improve until the end of that decade. By the end of the 1940s, Bechet had tired of struggling to make music in the United States. His contract with Jazz Limited, a Chicago-based record label, was limiting the events at which he could perform (for instance, the label would not permit him to perform at the 1948 Festival of Europe in Nice). He believed the jazz scene in the United States had little left to offer him and was getting stale.[5]
In 1958, Bechet performed as a soloist and with various other renowned musicians including Buck Clayton and Sarah Vaughan in memorable, spirited concerts in the United States Pavilion at Expo 58, the World's Fair in Brussels, Belgium.[14]
Permanent settlement in Paris In 1951, he migrated to France permanently,[2] after his performance as a soloist at the Paris Jazz Fair caused a surge in his popularity in that country, where he easily found well-paid work. Also, in 1951, he married Elisabeth Ziegler in Antibes.

Bechet in 1954 In 1953, he signed a recording contract with Disques Vogue that lasted for the rest of his life.[5] He recorded many hit tunes, including "Les Oignons," "Promenade aux Champs-Élysées," and the international hit "Petite Fleur." He also composed a classical ballet score in the late Romantic style of Tchaikovsky called La nuit est une sorcière ("The Night Is a Witch"). Some existentialists in France took to calling him le dieu ("the god").